As a child I was diagonosed with a heart murmur and now at age 24 I have high cholesterol, I am slightly over weight (5'5 at 155lbs) and no signs of other problems. Is there any connection to the problems that I am having.
2007-01-21 02:53:14 · 4 answers · asked by seeotterdee 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Heart murmurs are very common in childhood and often are nothing more than an outflow mumur (aka innocent murmur) that go away as you get older. Ask a doctor confirm that the murmur has now disappeared next time you are in for an exam.
Elevated cholesterol in your case is probably a combination of genetic predisposition and poor lifestyle habits. If you also smoke and are diabetic then you have some signicant risk factors for heart disease - and really need to pay attention. In most cases, women rarely (but not never) have heart disease before age 45 due to some presumed protective effects of hormonal influences. Nevertheless, there is no time like the present to consider how the lifestyle habits of today will impact your health 20 or 30 years from now.
Regarding the yackass above. He runs around berating anybody who agrees that loweing cholesterol will decrease your cardiac risk factors - his main point centers around the idea that diet alone has been equivocal in demonstrating reduced disease (mostly due to the modest reductions associated with lifestyle changes alone). (Watch he will give this response thumbs down too - if not directly respond to it with some rant.) Regardless, lowering cholesterol with the help of various medications has been very sucessful in reducing cardiac events - and that is well proven and irrefutable.
Good luck.
2007-01-21 07:24:55 · answer #1 · answered by c_schumacker 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
hi there
heart murmur means an abnormal heart sound which could be due to many causes
there is a strong link between being over weight and high cholesterol however high cholesterol is one of the risk factors for coronary artery disease so let us say your heart is already have problem in it (most probably valvular problem)so coronary artery disease will just add to the burden your heart is having already
regards
2007-01-21 11:04:23 · answer #2 · answered by going-to-light 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The murmur (still bothers you? especially when resting?) is usually not a concern... but high cholesteral is!! That will stress your circulatory system a lot more than a murmur!
My 2 cents worth - I am not a doc!! But I am on a beta blocker....
2007-01-21 10:59:51 · answer #3 · answered by waynebudd 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
High cholesterol is related to your diet.cut down fatty diets
2007-01-21 10:57:03 · answer #4 · answered by Syed A 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋